1、The U.S.Department of Homeland Security(DHS)has a wide variety of responsibilities to support and protect the United States.DHS missions include responding to natural and human-caused disasters,preventing future attacks against the United States,and securing cyberspace.To prop-erly execute its missi
2、ons,DHS relies on risk analyses produced internally and in coordination with other federal agencies,research organizations,and private stake-holders(DHS,2011b).Risk analysis provides a systematic process for uncovering the nature of uncer-tain events that lead to negative and undesired consequences
3、and for developing,evaluating,and prioritizing activities to manage how individuals and communities experience the outcomes of those events(Society for Risk Analysis SRA,2018).Uncertainties that create risk come in many forms:random error and statistical REBECCA TISHERMAN,HENRY H.WILLIS,JO CAULKINS,SANKALP KUMARInstitutional Risk Analysis Maturity at the U.S.Department of Homeland SecurityRisk Maturity Across Federal OrganizationsApril 2025Expert InsightsPERSPECTIVE ON A TIMELY POLICY ISSUEHS ACHOMELAND SECURITYOPERATIONAL ANALYSIS CENTERAn FFRDC operated by RAND under contract with DHS
